Jon Hamm to play baseball coach in a new film

Don Draper a.k.a. Jon Hamm makes a career change, moving to the world of motion pictures. The Mad Men hero will star in a full-length film about a failed agent who found an accidental gold mine

Star of TV series 'Mad Men' - Jon Hamm will play a major role in the film 'Million Dollar Arm' directed by Craig Gillespie ('Fright Night'). His character is a sports agent called J.B. Bernstein who is sent to India for the contest called 'Million Dollar Arm' to attract the attention of local residents to cricket. The experimental result exceeds expectations for the sports headhunter and he takes the best players to America to become baseball stars.

The film is based on the true story of Bernstein and baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel and will be in theatres from May 2014.